Agility Loop

I have become an avid Android user.  Although I do have a bit of device envy at some of the new Android devices out there, my Droid 1.0 is still a great phone.  However, navigating through the maze that is the Android Market on Android 2.1 is painful.  It will get better with the 2.2 upgrade (although still bitter I don't have it.  Maybe I should have installed it myself), but there has to be a better way. Today I stumbled upon AndSpot while reading Wired's Gadget Lab.  It is the latest of several alternative markets that you can install on your Android device.  It looks like it has promise, until I read that it appears that they want to build their own social network for the app rather than leverage an existing social graph.  This is a non-starter.  I do not have enough techie friends who are willing to start another social network for a niche app.  Instead, use my friends I already have on Facebook or LinkedIn.  The app does integrate with those networks, but it appears to be only for sharing apps (please correct me if I am wrong). Yes, Facebook may be evil in some ways and take up way too much time, but it has over 500 million users.  As an app builder, that is a huge network that you can leverage to make your app spread like wildfire.